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small potatoes

pl.n. Informal

1. A person or thing regarded as unimportant.

2. An insignificant amount or sum.

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small potatoes

n (functioning as singular or plural)

informal chiefly US and Canadian someone or something of little significance or value, esp a small amount of money

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small′ pota′toes

an insignificant person or thing.

[1825–35]

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Something or things that are unimportant:

fiddle-faddle, frippery, frivolity, froth, minutia, nonsense, small change, trifle, trivia, triviality.

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